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1. DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR SELECTING, SORTING AND REJECTINGDISCRETE ELEMENTS HAVING INFORMATION ENCODED THEREON IN ACCORDANCE WITHINFORMATION ENCODED ON ANOTHER MEDIUM, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING ASUPPLY RECEPTACLE, A GROUP OF RECEIVING RECEPTACLES INTO WHICH SAIDELEMENTS CAN BE INSERTED AND FROM WHICH SAID ELEMENTS CAN BE WITHDRAWN,FIRST SCANNING MEANS FOR GENERATING FIRST SIGNALS REPRESENTATIVE OF THEENCODED INFORMATION ON SAID MEDIUM IN ACCORDANCE WITH WHICH SAIDELEMENTS ARE TO BE SELECTED AND SORTED, MEANS FOR STORING SAID FIRSTSIGNALS, SECOND SCANNING MEANS INDEPENDENT OF SAID FIRST SCANNING MEANSFOR GENERATING SECOND SIGNALS FROM THE ENCODED INFORMATION ON EACHELEMENT, MEANS FOR TRANSPORTING SAID ELEMENTS INDIVIDUALLY FROM SAIDSUPPLY RECEPTACLE PAST SAID SECOND SCANNING MEANS TO ANY RECEPTACLE INSAID GROUP OF RECEPTACLES, RESPECTIVE TRANSFER MEANS FOR EACH OF SAIDRECEPTACLES, SAID TRANSFER MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH EACH OF THE RECEPTACLESIN SAID GROUP BEING SELECTIVELY OPERATIVE TO INSERT AN ELEMENT INTO ITSRESPECTIVE RECEPTACLE, MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID SECOND SIGNALS DERIVEDFROM EACH OF SAID ELEMENTS FOR COMPARING SAID SECOND SIGNALS WITH SAIDSTORED FIRST SIGNALS AND WITH CORRESPONDENCE GENERATING A SELECT SIGNAL,MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID SELECT SIGNAL FOR RENDERING ONE OF SAIDTRANSFER MEANS OPERATIVE WHEN SAID ELEMENT IS ALIGNED WITH THERESPECTIVE RECEPTACLE, MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE ABSENCE OF A SELECTSIGNAL FOR RENDERING ANOTHER OF SAID TRANSFER MEANS OPERATIVE WHEN SAIDELEMENT IS ALIGNED WITH THE RESPECTIVE RECEPTACLE, MEANS FOR SELECTIVELYESTABLISHING A SELECTING, SORTING OR REJECTING MODE OF OPERATION, ANDMEANS FOR INTERCONNECTING EACH OF SAID TRANSFER MEANS ASSOCIATED WITHSAID GROUP OF RECEPTACLES TO SAID SIGNAL COMPARING MEANS IN ACCORDANCEWITH THE SELECTED MODE OF OPERATION.